Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he had asked her if she was quite certain and she said she was , quite certain , but now he wondered if it was mere association that had made her agree , association and horror . |
| 2 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 3 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 4 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 5 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 6 | With her died the chance for Sinead to exorcise the demons that had scarred her childhood and turned her into a rebel whose talent to shock would ultimately overshadow her singing ability . |
| 7 | She shivered as she recalled the terrible blackness that had invaded her home and had clung to and coated the village on that night when she had heard the voices . |
| 8 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 9 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 10 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 11 | And in the storm of emotion that threatened to overwhelm her there was only room for one thought . |
| 12 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 13 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 14 | The manufacturers of BSB 's MAC receivers , the traders that tried to sell them , and the public who were encouraged to buy them , have lost confidence in the whole business of MAC , Marcopolo and 31° West . |
| 15 | He was the one who had got the photograph that had enabled her father to do the portrait . |
| 16 | Once again she wanted to block off the part of her mind that needed to question his past life with Maria Luisa . |
| 17 | And besides , there was a robust corner of her mind that refused to believe what was happening . |
| 18 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 19 | It was Woil 's voice , desperate to see the same fear that had stopped him finding freedom now overtaking Creggan . |
| 20 | She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ? |
| 21 | There was a silence and then she swore , remembering the fear that had convulsed her . |
| 22 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 23 | It was then she recognized it was fear that had set her limbs a-tremble and turned her blood to ice . |
| 24 | She bit her lip , fighting the fear that threatened to overwhelm her . |
| 25 | Though she was stiff and slightly sore , the tension that had made her talk too much , drop things , and jump at the smallest unexpected noise had completely disappeared . |
| 26 | ‘ This is unreal ! ’ she breathed , quite forgetting the tension that had dogged their journey out here . |
| 27 | Rumours of a social evening at the Hall with the entire village being invited had n't exactly dispelled all worry , since it was his summer parties that had made him so unpopular around the area in the first place . |
| 28 | The voice came distantly , accompanied by an echo that seemed to rob it of identity . |
| 29 | Still , it was only a hare that had hurt him . |
| 30 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |